To reduce its environmental impacts, Live Nation engaged CEA to review its Northern California operations and assess baseline environmental performance.  CEA then identified specific options for reducing high-priority environmental impacts and operating costs.  Based on these recommendations, Live Nation is taking steps to reduce and offset greenhouse gas emissions, conserve energy, reduce water use, increase recycling and purchase more environmentally friendly products. Learn more about greening efforts at Live Nation San Francisco.

Cooling Man’s mission is to unite the scientific and artistic communities in addressing climate change by inspiring direct climate action by individuals. Coordinated by CEA employees, Cooling Man develops greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories for cultural events and art works, suggests ways to reduce emissions, and finally helps obtain GHG offsets to more than compensate for remaining impacts.

CEA worked with a team of program directors, communications directors and fundraisers from WWF's International Secretariat to create three initiatives demonstrating new models for conservation action in key regions.

CEA developed business plans for WWF’s three Keystone Initiatives (KIs): the Amazon, the Congo and Bycatch. CEA evaluated WWF's current work in the three focus areas and assessed its programmatic and financial capacity throughout the WWF worldwide network. The final business plans outlined WWF's initiative strategy, programmatic design, organizational structure, and financial budget and included a fundraising and a communications plan. The KI is designed to leverage WWF's current network capacity, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other organizations. Each KI were built upon the already established targets and milestones of WWF's Global Programs, utilizing the full range of WWF’s capabilities, and serve as models for future conservation efforts.

CEA serves as the management team for the Chemical Strategies Partnership (CSP) and its membership arm, the CMS Forum. CSP was founded in 1996 and seeks to reduce chemical use, waste, risks, and cost through the transformation of the chemical supply chain by redefining the way chemicals are used and sold. CSP promotes as service-based model, called “chemical management services” where manufacturers shift away from a traditional supplier relationship to a strategic alliance with a chemical service provider. Instead of purchasing chemicals, the manufacturer purchases chemical services: assistance in purchasing, managing, and tracking chemicals. This shift to chemical services directly aligns the incentives of the service provider and manufacturer to reduce chemical use and costs. CSP has collaborated with more than 10 companies to assist them in analyzing current chemical management costs and designing a chemical management services (CMS) program. CSP also serves as an information clearinghouse, disseminating the model and introducing CMS to new industry sectors.

CEA serves as the coordinator of the Chemical Management Services Forum (CMS Forum) a coalition of CMS providers, their customers, tier II chemical suppliers, and other stakeholders interested in promoting CMS. The mission of the CMS Forum is to grow the awareness and practice of economically and environmentally beneficial chemical management services. CEA conducts workshops, educational outreach, industry research, and promotional activities for the CMS Forum.

CEA assisted in the development of distributed generation business plans for a major manufacturing company. Analysis included an evaluation of the environmental attributes of distributed generation technology, opportunities to develop next generation regulations, and the integration of auto and energy sector infrastructure.

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In 2001, several non-profit funders approached CEA to help develop an efficient and client-driven non-profit organization that could serve as a fiscal sponsor for its projects. After conducting research on fiscal sponsors in the US, CEA helped establish a new non-profit organization to support environmental leaders in their conservation work: The Trust for Conservation Innovation.

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CEA developed a business plan for WWF’s initiative to implement the European Union's reformed fisheries legislation, the Common Fisheries Policy. This work involved the evaluation of WWF's current policy, advocacy, and research capacity throughout its network of national organizations in Europe. In addition, CEA evaluated the capacity of potential partners including other non-governmental organizations and research institutions. The final business plan outlined WWF's initiative strategy, organizational structure, and financial budget. The plan was designed to leverage WWF's current network capacity, as well as opportunities for collaboration with other organizations.